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There s a wall eastbound. it s coming into the heart of if city now. shepard: you talk very fast, as you know, jeff and i have a hard time understanding you. did you just say that this headed into the town of oklahala city? yes, people are fleeing the path of the tornado, i have state troopers and highway patrol, they are trying to get out of the path. it s west of me, look at the radar. shepard: okay for our rur viewers, i-40 and i-44 cross paths, and it s a completely populated area, absolutely completely populated, there s no breaks. it s like a large city with suburban areas and it s all grown together and all of it is heavily populated. highway patrol are running eastbound. and southbound. ....
Now on the ground and they are all headed directly for oklahoma city. this is the worst case scenario imaginab imaginable. and people in oklahoma have lived with this forever, it s my hope that every single person in that area has taken shelter underground, but i know better. jeff, are you in a safe place? and if not, why not. yes, research team just passed me, flying eastbound, trying to get out of the path. they are trying to track the storm. running eastbound. i have a i m going to estimate well over 100 vehicles are flying eastbound with oklahoma highway patrol escorting them.ti r have highwa behind me, they are in the fast lane, and literally everyone is running eastbound to get us on of the path of the tornado. it s an unbelievable scene. ....
For it to take this area, which would take it through oklahoma city itself, we have multiple tornadoes on the ground right now. we have 5 confirmed by trained weather spotters or through the radar, all from the enormous system, that the national weather service predicted would happen. and now, a nightmare come true on a friday night in and around oklahoma city. jeff, storm chaser who is providing us with these pictures. this is out his front windshield live, he is in yukon, which i said west of oklahoma city, can t see the twister well because of the heavy rain d hail. he has been tracking it for like 25 minutes. jeff, this thing is on you already. yes, that is right, shep, i will give you a brief recap, we had at times a mile wide, we filmed tornadoes, one to three on the ground at the same time, i do have major damage, possibly even heavy damage south of el ....
Canadia counties as of the reporting about six miñutes ago. a tornado, rain wrapped tornado near i-40. jeff? yes, we have two tornadoes, the radar is i have two tornados, there s a tornado on the ground in southwest el reno, that is the storm behind me, and i continue to have emergency personnel racing west pouring out of oklahoma city. and ambulances going west, i don t know what they are responding to, telling you what i m seeing. got tornados southwest of el reno and a new developing tornado southwest of me. it is going to be, i m coming to the western suburbs of oklahoma city. shepard: i want to give the viewers an idea of what we are talking about. about 14 miles west of oklahoma city on i-40 is a small town of el reno, that has been hit, we believe. half way between oklahoma city and el reno is the small town of ....
Yukon, and that is in its poth and oklahoma city itself, and you are in the middle of all of that, jeff? that s correct. look at the live extreme right now. there s literally, here comes another 5-7 highway patrol troopers. they are going west. blocking all ramps going into the suburbs, this is heavy populated. just north of will rodgers airport let me look at the map. i m now tracking shepard: just a moment, i have gotten information from the national weather service, circulation is now strengthening again in northwest oklahoma county, along i-40. potential tornado headed directly for i-44, in western oklahoma city. ....